Elder Layton is a Full-Time Missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Serving in the Uruguay Montevideo West Mission

Monday, November 21, 2016

Zee Four Gringos

Elders Good and Layton

Hey everyone!!

It has been a great week and I am really looking forward to
all that we are going to do this change. To start, we are living in a house of
four gringos again! Yeah, Elder Pettit got his ´kid´ on Wednesday and he is a
gringo too. His name is Elder Chudleigh and he is one of the funniest people I
have ever met. And I got my new companion, Elder Good ant the mission
conference! He is really cool and we get along super well. I still think it is
funny that he has 5 1/2 months in the mission and he has been out the longest
in a house of four gringos. So we are all figuring out the language together. But it has been really fun and I really love the group of guys that we
live with.

So I met Elder Good at the mission conference with Elder Rasband.
There were so many missionaries there and we all got to shake his hand. It was
pretty stinkin´ cool to see an Apostle of the Lord!! I learned a lot from him
and one thing that I thought was cool was that we are in our exact missions, in
our exact areas, and with our exact companions for a very specific reason, and
that it has all been assigned by revelation from the Lord. We should always ask
ourselves in each of our situations, what we are to learn from our current
experiences, because there is always something to learn. It was an incredible
conference and it was amazing to hear from him.

Anyways, do you guys remember [...] that I
mentioned a while ago? We ran into him again this past week on the street with
Elder Nielsen, and this time we were able to get his address. We hadn't had time
in the last few days before Elder Nielsen went home because he had a lot of
members he wanted to say goodbye to, but we went over to his house on Thursday,
my first day with Elder Good.

Saying Goodbye to Elder Nielsen

Sebastian was super happy to see us and he let us
in. It turns out that he lives with eight people and a couple of them wanted to
join in our message. The others are named [...and...] and they are a little
older but are really awesome. We taught the three of them the Restoration, and
they kept getting off track, but it still turned out to be a pretty good
lesson! All three of them always tell us how much of a blessing we are to them
haha. We went over again yesterday, and followed up some on the restoration and
talked some more about modern day prophets and prayer and this time [...] agreed to say the closing prayer, which he did a really good job at. We invited
them all to an activity on Thursday at the church to eat Chorizo, and they flooded us with gratitude. They said they didnt want to come just to eat the
food, but that they wanted to be with us. Then then all gave us really big hugs
after the lesson haha. They are so awesome.

On Saturday, we went over to a baptism in Barrio 12, which
is Elder Pettit and Elder Chudleigh´s ward. It was kind of cool that Elder
Chudleigh got to have a baptism on just his fourth day! Elder Pettit did the
ordinance, and the baptismal service was really special.

I said goodbye to Elder Nielsen Wednesday morning and spent the
day as companions with Elder Maxfield since his companion, Elder Pettit was
receiving his new missionary at the mission home. Elder Maxfield was able to
teach me a lot of good missionary skills his last day here in Flores.

Elder Good and I have been making some plans to find more
investigators, and also work more with members. I am super excited for this
change. The two of us have a lot in common and I am really excited because he
wants to work really hard. He is a stud and together we have been trying to be
as obedient as possible.

Command Central

He is really excited to come to Montevideo because his
old area in Salto was apparently really hard. He also loves the food here. His
first member meal was at a really awesome family named Palavez and they gave us
Asado, which is where they cook a bunch of different meats over a big grill.
Elder Good said it was the best thing he has eaten in all of his time in
Uruguay. I guess I have been pretty spoiled here in Montevideo :) But yeah, I am
loving it here with Elder Good. It is funny because he gets a lot of Elder
Bueno jokes from everyone.

I am so very grateful to be serving a missionary of
the Lord! I love and miss you all!

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Elder Layton

About Me

Elder Layton is a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He is serving in the Uruguay Montevideo West Mission. Curtis is the youngest of 4 children.

His interests in High School included Rugby and playing the French Horn / Trumpet in band. He was involved in playing Basketball, Lacrosse and Water Polo and attended early morning Seminary for 4 years. But he has put everything on hold for 2 years to respond to the call to serve the people of Uruguay.

Upon returning from his mission, he plans on attending BYU-Idaho to continue his education.